scholarly journals District–Learning: An Architectural Approach to Bridge the Academic Gap in the UAE Educational System

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022058
Author(s):  
Vittorino Belpoliti ◽  
Marwa Al Nahlawi ◽  
Lama Al Haj Husein ◽  
Sana Al Khaled
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Educational System ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Urban Level ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Academic Gap

Abstract The United Arab Emirates Vision 2071 expects the country to become one of the best in the world in several sectors, including education and infrastructure. Highlighting today’s global tendency towards a knowledge-based economy, it drives the need to bridge the academic gap in UAE’s educational system to enhance the nation’s innovation. This gap is best addressed from three different levels, policy level, pedagogical level, and socio-urban level. The UAE is working on developing its educational system by emphasizing its importance through the UAE future strategies and policies, that will upgrade it with its new pedagogical facilities. This study proposes the “District-Learning”, a novel approach to upgrading the UAE educational system/sector by providing the necessary new pedagogical functions in a building located in the barycenter of a school district and serving all its existing facilities. The concept focuses on boosting the communication between schools in the same district and enables sharing resources between them. This non-physical connectivity will be translated into physical connectivity which bridge each existing school to the new building. The construction process fosters modularity and flexibility, allowing the project to fit the demand of different districts. The study present the results of a test of this new approach to the case study of Al Jurf 2 zone in Ajman.

scholarly journals Urban regeneration and building retrofit. A strategy towards instilling a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022057
Author(s):  
Vittorino Belpoliti ◽  
Reema A. AlMheiri ◽  
Zanira A. Ali ◽  
Lujain T. AlAtiq
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Building Retrofit ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Abstract The United Arab Emirates’ economy is transitioning to a knowledge-based economy by promoting innovation and research development. Supporting the UAE’s Vision at becoming among the best and most innovative nation in the world by 2071, the Government has developed frameworks that recognize the importance of innovation to an economy’s growth and development. This paper presents the results of a design research where the domain of architecture and engineering blend with economics and social studies to the serve the UAE’s vision, proposing urban solutions to launch the country in its ‘next 50’ years, with an eye for the preservation and revitalization of the exiting and valuable resources. The research project proposes a different geography of innovation and introduces urban regeneration strategies to stimulate innovative policies for the built environment of the entire UAE territory. With the intent of forming an intangible connection between the seven Emirates, the proposed intervention can be situated in every state. The study especially looks into the three neighboring Emirates or Dubai, Sharjah, and Ajman, and finally select the latter to test the introduction of strategically designed spaces in degraded (and disconnected) locations to encourage the community to innovate while at the same time reusing/refurbishing the existing resources/buildings/facilities. The specific case study involves the design of an incubator facility in an obsolete villa community in Ajman, formerly hosting locals (therefore luxurious) that now have left for better locations and cannot manage to resell their properties due to the decadence of the neighbourhood. The incubator, a building articulated in the interstitial spaces in between the villas, would reactivate the district by attracting young and innovative entrepreneurs, who settle there for both working and living, exploiting the incubator complex as a parasite of the existing villas. If successful, the project will revive the district, provide it a new brand, and create a new financial stream to self-support its gradual regeneration.

scholarly journals Mentoring in the concept of the learning organization in higher education – empirical research / Mentoring w koncepcji organizacji uczącej się szkoły wyższej w świetle badań empirycznych

Management ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-290
Author(s):  
Martyna Wronka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Research Mentoring

Summary The development of a knowledge-based economy necessitates the search for new methods and tools for enhancing organizational learning processes. In this context, many scholars point to the importance of mentoring as a tool to support individual and organizational learning. The paper is an attempt to answer the question: how mentoring helps to stimulate the process of organizational learning? Therefore, this paper discusses the concept of learning organization, concept of mentoring along with associated concepts, on the basis of which experience result from the process of implementing mentoring at university are pointed out. This objective will be achieved through presentation of the results of the literature study followed by case study on the implementation and realization of mentoring programme at one of the polish universities

scholarly journals Shaping the Education to Meet the Global Demands: Industrial Inclusiveness in University Curriculum

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. p28
Author(s):  
Lalih Edirisinghe ◽  
Sampath Siriwardena ◽  
Lakshmi Ranwala
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Business World ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
University Curriculum ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Contemporary Education

The world entered to knowledge-based economy which is based on the production and use of information. Today computer technology, language proficiency and logistics play a major role. University Curriculum connects the secondary level education and the industry. Therefore, industry inclusiveness is essential in transforming children to an industry worker or an entrepreneur. This paper is derived from an opinion survey, desk research, and a case study. Reports of international institutions were studied extensively in the literatures survey. The respondents of the survey consisted key personnel in the government and private sector covering a cross section of the stakeholders in education and business world. The report analyses are then evaluated and discussed though a case study in Sri Lanka. The practices and procedures in the contemporary education system in the country is systematically explained in this section. The report presents its key recommendation under seven areas as policy recommendations. It includes innovative concepts such as, vertical integration between schools, universities, and industry; extended academic disciplines at tertiary level; changes in the university; review to selection criteria of state universities; new academic disciplines in the school curriculum; technical and vocational education; focus on children with different skills etc.

Nuclear cooperation will bolster South Korea-Gulf ties

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
South Korea ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy

Subject South Korea-Gulf ties. Significance As Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates seek to reduce their economic dependence on oil, they have been deepening their ties with South Korea. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) view South Korea as a development model because of its swift and successful transition to a knowledge-based economy. For its part, Seoul believes that developing ties with Gulf countries will enhance its energy security and boost trade flows. Impacts Increased renewables capacity will help meet the Gulf's rising domestic energy demand that threatens to erode its capacity to export oil. South Korean technology transfer and expertise should stimulate job creation in downstream industries, and help reduce youth unemployment. Construction of nuclear plants in the Gulf will establish South Korea as a credible exporter of nuclear power technology.

The development of ecosystems for technology transfer in Mexico: the role of Patenting Centers

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-347
Author(s):  
Luis Felipe Beltrán-Morales ◽  
David J Jefferson ◽  
Ileana Serrano Fraire ◽  
Monica Alandete-Saez
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Ip Protection ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Building Activities

In this article, we evaluate an initiative recently launched by the national government in Mexico to create ‘Patenting Centers’ in various universities and research institutions in diverse regions of the country. We focus particularly on elucidating how the installation of these Patenting Centers has augmented the number of national filings for intellectual property (IP) protection, and how the Centers have contributed to increasing the quality of IP applications. Furthermore, we analyze how the Mexican Patenting Centers have qualitatively contributed to fostering local cultures of innovation, for example through capacity-building activities directed towards scientific researchers. We also attempt to understand how the Patenting Centers have supported processes of technology transfer and commercialization, which we evaluate by examining a case study from the Northwest Biological Research Center (CIBNOR). Our findings indicate that the Mexican Patenting Centers have contributed to increasing IP protection activity in various regions of the country, and that they have augmented interactions between public research institutions and the productive sector. We conclude with suggestions for how the Patenting Center model may be further assessed in the future, to ensure that the government's mission of fostering endogenous innovation and the creation of a knowledge-based economy may continue to be realized.

Towards a New Approach for Controlling the Reorganization Process of Multi-Agent Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-91
Author(s):  
Kalache Ayyoub ◽  
Farid Mokhati ◽  
Mourad Badri
Keyword(s):  
Control Process ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Concrete Case ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Computational Systems

Reorganization in Multi-Agent Systems plays a crucial role in the dynamic adaptation of the structure and the behaviour of organizations. In order to ensure consistency of the resulting organization, the reorganization process has to be controlled. This paper proposes a novel approach for controlling the reorganization process of Multi-Agent Systems, which are specified and implemented using the Framework OMACS (Organizational Model for Adaptive Computational Systems). The proposed control process is accomplished using the Framework MOP (Monitoring Oriented Programming) for supporting the verification of some reorganizational properties. The proposed approach, supported by a software tool that we developed, is illustrated using a concrete case study.

Potential Challenges of ICT Implementations in Sri Lanka

2008 ◽  
pp. 2032-2051
Author(s):  
Kennedy D. Gunawardana
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The People ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Globalized Economy

This chapter offers a state-of-the-art review of the implementation of ICTs strategies in a developing country with special reference to Sri Lanka as a case study. This chapter is based on primary and secondary sources (books, articles, Web sites, white papers, and grey literature). It also brings in a small number of empirical studies that serve to illustrate the practical use of the ICT to support arguments. Traditionally, access to ICTs and information has not been viewed as basic a need. However, if needs are interpreted as being dynamic and changing over time and culture (Max-Neef, 1986), access to information and knowledge could be treated as a basic need. Information and knowledge have become increasingly important in the contemporary globalized economy, as advancement in ICTs has enabled larger amounts of information to circulate at a much higher speed and at lower cost. This is partly due to the balance between knowledge and natural resources, but with regard to being the most important factor in determining the standard of living in a country, it is said to have shifted in favor of knowledge. This has led many authors to claim that the people are now living in an information society or a knowledge-based economy (Drucker, 1993). Nowadays, it is a country’s ability to assimilate, use, and diffuse knowledge that will essentially determine its chances of uplift in the new economy.

Division of Interfirm Activities in the Knowledge-Based Economy

2009 ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Poul Houman Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Processes ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
Interfirm Networks ◽  
The Core ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
New Form ◽  
Interfirm Learning

In order to capture market dividends and stay at par with the competition in the knowledge-based economy, firms must constantly develop their skill profile. There is considerable scope for learning through interfirm learning processes. However, the uncertain and costly nature of this process hampers exchange of knowledge in interfirm networks. This opens up for a new form of intermediary specialised in the absorption, generation, and dissemination of knowledge: the knowledge processor. This contribution addresses the core strategic issues faced by this type of firm, and illustrates the process through a case study of a knowledge processor.

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